All posts tagged 'TBI'

Baseball Star Before Severe Brain Injury and Coma

Posted on February 14th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 4 of 36 in the series Zachary Zach Part Four  One of the things that makes Zach’s story compelling is the portrait of such a young and dynamic man before the injury – baseball star, homecoming queen, party animal.  He had much to lose and came..
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Amnesia After Severe Brain Injury Ends On Transfer To Rehab

Posted on February 13th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 3 of 36 in the series Zachary Zach Part Three  Zach believes that he remembers the moment he awoke from his coma.  For a coma that is not drug induced, this would be highly unusual. However, to the degree his coma was induced, it is possible..
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Confused Whereabouts When Zachary Gauvin Awakes from Brain Injury Coma

Posted on February 12th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 2 of 36 in the series Zachary Zach Part Two  As there is almost always a period of retrograde amnesia that precedes a coma brain injury, one would by definition, expect someone who emerges from a coma, to be confused as to his or her whereabouts...
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Gabrielle Giffords Illustrates Long Road To TBI Recovery

Posted on February 11th, 2013 · Posted in Brain Injury

Former Arizona Congressman Gabrielle Giffords has made a lot of strides since she was shot in the head at point blank range roughly two years ago. At one point shortly after the attack on her, she could only spoke two words, “what” and “chicken.” Now Giffords is among those leading..
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The ‘Not Quites” of Miracles and Recovery From Severe Brain Injury

Posted on February 10th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 1 of 36 in the series Zachary Zach Part One   This is the story of Zach Gauvin, author of the autobiographical book, the Miracle Kid.  But recovery from severe brain injury is not about “miracles” – it is about medicine, it is about rehabilitation, it is..
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Craig-Hope for Traumatic Brain Injury Despair

Posted on February 8th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 34 of 34 in the series Craig Craig Part Thirty Four – Conclusion –  Hope for TBI Despair – You are not Alone   You mentioned suicide in a couple of different, contexts, and it is one of my biggest concerns.  There’s just a cataclysm out..
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Craig-Making Traumatic Brain Injury Information Mandatory

Posted on February 7th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 33 of 34 in the series Craig Craig Part Thirty Three  Well, here’s the issue.  Doctors are remarkably resistant to learning information after they leave their medical education except through the long-term judgment and wisdom they get from listening to people – eventually.  How do we..
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Craig-Traumatic Brain Injury Support for Relationships

Posted on February 6th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 32 of 34 in the series Craig Craig Part Thirty Two  I want to talk about two other things.    The first thing I want to talk about is the personal relationships that you had to rebuild to maintain after your injury.  We didn’t talk about the..
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Craig-Empowering At Core of TBI Advocacy

Posted on February 5th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 31 of 34 in the series Craig Craig Part Thirty One  What other advocacy achievements are you proud of? You talked about respectful language? Yeah, that, that was with People First.    We fought for it, its called People First language.  It’s named after an organization. It’s..
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Craig-Traumatic Brain Injury Fund Act

Posted on February 4th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

This entry is part 30 of 34 in the series Craig Craig Part Thirty   Talk to me about the legislative the actions that you have achieved. Well the first one, and again Tommy Manning, I give him full credit.  Matter of fact it’s named the Tommy Manning Act.   He..
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